CM chairs meeting to finalize relief package

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz on Monday chaired a meeting  to give a final shape to the chief minister’s relief package for the masses.  MPAs including Sardar Awais Leghari, Kh. Imran Nazir, Bilal Yasin, Ramzan  Siddique Bhatti, ticket-holder Hafiz Muhammad Nauman, PMLN leader  Atta Tarar, secretaries of agriculture, food, industries and finance departments,  and others, attended the meeting.  The CM emphasized that the government would provide relief to the masses  and said that a decision had been made to reduce the price of flour and sugar  for the people.  This relief was the right of the people and hoped that the special relief package  would redress the difficulties of the common man. A substantial relief would be  given in prices to give genuine relief to the common man, he stated and added  that he was standing with the people.  The relief package should be given final shape without any delay as the 15 days  have passed, he stressed and directed to devise a foolproof monitoring mechanism.  He asked the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) to take a lead in this  regard as a separate monitoring cell would be set up for the relief package.